Gage



0. L. WOOD.

GAGE.

APPLICATION men JUNE 19. 1920.

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ATTORNEY ORLO L. WOOD, or LANSING, ,MIQI-IIGAN. j j

GAGE.

Application filed June 19,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORLQ L. WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansing, in thecounty of Ingham'and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Im provements in Gages, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has reference to printing presses, and particularly to means for automatically feeding all such presses and maybe considered in the nature of an improvement on the gage upon which I was granted United States Letters-Patent No. 1,317,061, dated September 23, 1919.

The present invention may be also considered in the nature of an improvement on the finger employed in my said patented dev1ce. I

The drawing illustrates a satisfactory embodiment' of the improvement reduced to practice, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of the platen of a Gordon press, showing that por-.. tion of the Miller automatic feeding mechanism which is carried by the platen.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, taken through the improvement.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view looking toward one end of the improvement.

In the drawings the platen of a Gordon press is indicated by the numeral 10. This press is equipped with a Mller automatic press feeder, only a suflicient portion of which has been illustrated to show the application of the improvement. This portion includes a finger holder 11 and the arm 12 which actuates the holder to impart a reciprocatory movement thereto.

In the holder 11 there is secured the body member 12 of the improvement. The body member may, as illustrated by the drawings, comprise a plurality of lapping sections which are surrounded, adjacent their ends by sleeves 13, the latter being provided with binding nuts'lt. The outer section is formed to provide a jaw 15. This jaw is formed with transverse ribs 16, and depressions 17 between said ribs. In other words, the outer end of the body member that constitutes the jaw is bent upon itself to provide corrugated portions and the extreme end of the jaw is beveled from both of its faces to its edge providing a lip portion which has a rounded outer end and which has its edges sharpened so that V Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 31, 1920.

the thinnest paper may be readily received on the jaw. The member 15 provides the stationary jaw of the construction. The movable jaw is indicated by the numeral 18 and is in the nature of a strip of a Width Arm OFFICE.

equaling that of the body which carries the main aw. The movable jaw has its rear end fixed to the body at the juncture ofthe fixed jaw therewith, as indicated by the numeral 19, and the jaw proper is provided with transverse lugs 20 and intersecting depressions 21. As true of the stationary aw, the movable jaw is bent transversely or otherwise corrugated, and the lipped outer end 22 thereof is reduced, being rounded from its center to its sides and being flared upwardly from the lip ofthe stationary jaw. The lip of the movable jaw is also beveled from its center to its opposite faces wherebythe paper may be properly received between the jaws. As a matter of fact the last mentioned j aw; which has been referred to as the movable jaw is normally stationary with respect to the fixedjaw, but is yieldable, but the lugs on the inner face of the main jaw are designed to be received in the depressions of the first mentioned jaw, so that a paper passing between the jaws will be effectively gripped therebetween. It is thought that the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the drawings will fully set forth the construction and advantages of the improvement to those skilled in the art to which such invention relates.

Having thus described the invention, what.

claim is 1. The combination with an automatic.

feeding mechanism for printing presses havably secured therein and having a transthereof, a second transversely corrugated jaw disposed overthe first mentioned jaw versely corrugated jaw on the outer end and having its inner end secured to the finger at the juncture of the jaw thereof. 7 2. The combination with an automatic feeding mechanism for printin presses having a rotary finger holder, 0 a finger including a flat bodysecured in the holder,

said finger having its outer end bent upon itself to provide transverse projections and depressions to form the said body with a jaw, the outer end of the jaw being reduced and rounded-to the sides thereof and beveled from its edge to the opposite faces.

- thereof, a second jaw having its inner end the last mentioned jaw having its end flared fixed to the body and overlying the first Inenupwardly to provide a rod which is reduced 10 'tioned j aw, said second mentioned jaw comand rounded from its end to its sides and prising a strip Which is corrugated transwhich has its opposite faces beveled in- 5 versely to provide intersecting projections" 'wardly from its edges. and depressions the depressions of the last In testimony whereof I afiix nay-signature. mentioned jaw designed to receive the pro r. jections of the first mentioned jaw therein, 7 a ORLO L. WOOD. 

